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(Application filad Inn. 29, 1901 (No Model.)

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PAUL F. DE FORD, OF PASADENA, CALIFORNIA.

DEVICE FOR PLAYING GAMES OF CHANCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 693,821, dated February18, 1902.

' Application filed January 29, 1901. Serial No. 45.256. (No model.)

T0 at whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PAUL F. DE FORD, of the city of Pasadena, in thecounty of Los Angeles, in the State of California, have invented acertain new and useful Device for Playing Games of Chance for Purposesof Amusement, of which the following isa full, clear, and exactdescription or specification, reference being had to the annexed sheetof drawings and to the letters marked thereon.

This invention consists'of a hollow device which when rolled upon asurface or otherwise moved about enables any desired number of ballscontained loosely within the hollow thereof to be caught and retained ina corresponding number of recesses. The interior of this hollow deviceisconstructed with a large number of recesses capable of receiving suchballs-for example, one hundred or more recesses and one, two, three,four, or more balls-into some of which recesses the balls locatethemselves and are held as the hollow device is rolled or otherwisemoved about. The recesses may be marked with numbers, and the summationof the numbers of the recesses whereinto the balls have fallen or movedconstitutes the score of the game. Instead of numbering each oftherecesses with a different number they maybe colored, each colorrepresenting a different number or value, and the balls themselves mayalso be numbered or colored with different numbers and colors, so thatthe score in these cases would be counted by the position of the ballsin recesses of different numbers or of different colors or by theposition of the balls at different positions of the hollow of thedevice, which numbers on the balls determine the summation or score, orother symbols than numbers or colors may be marked in this mannersuch,for example, as the symbols which are used on a pack of cards forplaying whist or other games.

While the device may be used for obtaining the scores, as has beenexplained, by different methods, yet the device itself is al ways thesame, and it is the device which constitutes the present invention.

The device is preferably made in two hemispheres, which when unitedtogether by an equatorial joint constitute a perfect sphere.

On the annexed drawings, Figure l represents the device in suchspherical form. Fig. 2 represents the two hemispheres constituting thedevice separated, the hemisphere on the left-hand side being shown inelevation and the hemisphere on the right-hand side being shown invertical section. Fig. 3 is a plan of one of the hemispheres, showingthe interior thereof and a number of circular re- Figs. 1 and 2, so thatthe two hemispheres A and B, respectively, may be united or separated bythe equatorial screw-joint O and 0.

As will be seen by Fig. 3, the interior or hollow of each hemisphere isconstructed with numerous circular recesses D D D D, whereinto, as thehollow device is rolled about, either upon the surface of a table orupon the floor of an apartment or upon any other surface or even movedabout while being held in the hands of a person, each of the balls E E Efall and take up any position in the recesses which the hand, thedirection of the movement of the device, and the balls within it maycontrol.

To ascertain the score or scores made by the device and the ballstherein, the hollow device is opened by unscrewing and separat ing thehemispheres, when the position of the balls E E E indicates the score inthe manner hereinbefore mentioned.

It is to be understood that while I have upon the annexed drawings shownmy device as spherical in form, believing, as I do, this to bepreferable, yet I desire it to be understood that the hollow device isnot necessarily 9o spherical, as it may be made tubular, cylindrical, orconical and in any form of two or more parts capable of being separatedand united by a joint, the parts in either case con taining analogousrecesses D D D and containing any desired number of balls E E E.

Having now described the nature of my said invention and'the bestsystem, mode, or manner I am at present acquainted with for carry ingthe same into practical effect, I desire to 100 observe, in conclusion,that what I consider to be novel and original, and therefore claim asthe invention to be secured to me by Letters Patent, is as follows:

manner and for the purposes substantially as hereinbefore described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this 1st day ofNovember, in 15 the year of our Lord 1900, in the presence of twosubscribing Witnesses.

PAUL F. DE FORD. LL. s.]

Witnesses:

ST. JOHN DAY, W. E. MURRAY.

